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Health experts say Johnson and Johnson vaccine could prove helpful especially for smaller communities
Megan Gonzales says Frio Regional Hospital may not have as many resources as bigger facilities but they ve been able to be efficient with vaccinating. Author: Zack Briggs Updated: 12:01 AM CST March 2, 2021
FRIO COUNTY, Texas Rural community health care facilities are eyeing the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine as maintaining supply remains a continuous challenge.
“It is so hard to get the vaccine and everybody wants it,” said Megan Gonzales, who works as an infection prevention nurse at Frio Regional Hospital in Pearsall.
Gonzales admits it’s been an off and on struggle supplying enough vaccine to meet the high demand.
Express Briefing: Rural hospitals begging for vaccine
Dec. 28, 2020
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First United Methodist Church Pastor David Bachelor prays over registered nurses Monique Reyna, left, and Krystal Moreno before they get the first Moderna COVID-19 vaccines at Frio Regional Hospital in Pearsall. Half of the state’s rural hospitals have not received vaccine shipments. Nurse Mirta Martinez helped give the shots.Jerry Lara /San Antonio Express-News